We are working on a desktop application on C# which uses Adobe Express 5.0. to view the PDF files. Recently we had an issue reported that PDFs created in Adobe 9 are not opening up. So we decided to upgrade to Acrobat Adobe X Standard. Now the issue is that I have to suppress controls (tool bars(or Panels), menu items) for which I'm using the below code which worked in express 5.0 but not on Adobe X. Also I want to view the toolbar by default instead of the translucent menu at the bottom of the page.

We used javascript to find out the names of the menu items that are present in the Adobe 9.0 Std. I presume that it would work even for Adobe 10.o as well. After that in the .NET C# code we have used App.RemoveMenutItem ("<<MenuItemName>>") to disable all the menu items that we dont want You can search for javascript references for Acrobat and you would find many.

Also I've figured out another way where you remove the .api files from your plugins folder, however I'm not sure if it would create any further problems. This is route is not taken, atleast for now.